Naughty Boys
by Y.M.O.
- Type: Album
- Released: 24 May 1983
- Label: Alfa
- Country: Japan
- Length: 38:10
- Community rating: 3.93/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Yellow Magic Orchestra pivots dramatically from their earlier experimental electronics to embrace bright, hyper-melodic, and remarkably polished pop structures. 'Naughty Boys' is a wonderfully playful, uplifting masterpiece of Japanese synth-pop and techno kayō, drenched in lush, futuristic synthesizers. It is an incredibly happy, culturally massive album that solidified their status as electronic pop pioneers.
Genres
Descriptors: male-vocalist, melodic, japanese, synth, electronic
Tracklist
- Kimi Ni Mune Kyun (Uwaki Na Bakansu) = 君に、胸キュン。（浮気なヴァカンス） (4:05)
- Expected Way = 希望の路 (4:33)
- Focus (3:40)
- Ongaku = 音楽 (3:25)
- Opened My Eyes (3:39)
- You've Got To Help Yourself = 以心電信（予告編） (0:30)
- Lotus Love (4:04)
- Kai-Koh = 邂逅 (4:26)
- Expecting Rivers = 希望の河 (4:37)
- Wild Ambitions (5:11)
Credits
- Yellow Magic Orchestra - primary artist, mixed by, composed by [作曲]
- Kazusuke Obi - a&r, coordinator [a&r coordination]
- Osamu Takahashi - a&r, coordinator [a&r coordination]
- Tsuguya Inoue - art direction
- Toshinao Tsukui - creative director [creative service]
- Takanobu Arai - engineer [assistant engineer, onkio haus]
- Akitsugu Doi - engineer [assistant engineer, studio "a"]
- Mitsuo Koike - engineer [engineered by], mixed by
- Bill Nelson - guitar [guitar played by]
- Mikio Honda - hair, make-up
- Haruomi Hosono - instruments [all instruments except guitar played by], composed by [作曲], lyrics by [作詞]
- Ryuichi Sakamoto - instruments [all instruments except guitar played by], composed by [作曲], lyrics by [作詞]
- Yukihiro Takahashi - instruments [all instruments except guitar played by], composed by [作曲], lyrics by [作詞]
- B-2 Unit Co., Ltd. - management
- Hiroshi Okura - management
- Office Intenzio - management
- Yoichi Ito - management
- Eiichiro Sakata - photography by
- Akihiko Yamazoe - technician [technical assistance]
- Takeshi Fujii - technician [technical assistance]
- Takashi Matsumoto - lyrics by [作詞]
- Peter Barakan - lyrics by [作詞]